Digest #41: September 2025
This month at Mad Devs, we're focusing on what every tech team needs: efficiency, resilience, and clarity. Explore our DevOps guides, deep-dive write-ups, and glossary of terms shaping tomorrow’s tech.

Unlocking DevOps secrets
From cost-saving GitLab setups to best practices for multi-cloud security, here are DevOps picks spotlighting the strategies that actually make teams stronger.

DevOps Engineer Skills Matrix: A Roadmap to a Career in DevOps
Discover how a structured skill matrix helps evaluate DevOps teams, identify growth opportunities, and ensure balanced expertise across projects.

How Do We Save About ~$10,000 a Year Using Self-Hosted GitLab
Learn how switching to a self-hosted GitLab setup cuts costs without compromising performance, security, or scalability.

Multi-Cloud Security Best Practices
Explore practical strategies to protect workloads across multiple cloud platforms, reduce risks, and strengthen resilience in distributed environments.
Advanced engineering insights
The best way to learn optimization is by doing it. A Mad Devs Software Engineer's latest experiment with ROT13 takes a familiar concept and pushes it to warp speed, with plenty of takeaways for real-world systems.

See how low-level optimization techniques transform a simple cipher into a case study on performance tuning and practical engineering.
Fresh tech terms for September
Our glossary continues to expand with terms every tech professional should master.

📖 Neural network
Understand a technique that transforms text, images, or other complex data into numerical vectors that machine learning models can easily work with.
📖 Embeddings in ML
Learn how embeddings turn complex objects like text or images into numerical vectors for machine learning models.
📖 Microservices
Discover the architectural style that breaks applications into independent, loosely coupled services.
📖 Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
See how DDD helps structure complex software around business domains for better alignment and scalability.
📖 Backend as a Service (BaaS)
Explore platforms that provide ready-to-use backend features, allowing developers to focus on building the front end more quickly.
Careers at Mad Devs
Looking for your career’s next move? We’re on the hunt for curious minds, problem-solvers, and builders who love turning big ideas into reality.

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